Apologies to all for the long delay since RC2. We found some important sound driver issues with recent kernel versions which we have solved with help from some of our users and Anssi Hannula, a kernel developer. Anssi is working on getting the fixes included in newer kernels so that all Distributions will benefit from this in the future. Many thanks for the great help!

We also found some bigger problems in XBMCs Audio Engine code which have finally been solved with great help from XBMC developers "Fritsch", "wsnipex", "Martijn" and many others. Fixes have been committed upstream in XBMC as well, so any further XBMC (bugfix) release will include them too.

HD-Audio on Intel HDMI devices is now working out of the box. You must of course meet the hardware requirements (HD2000+).

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We would like to thank our users, team members and partners for testing, reporting and fixing issues, creating how-to documents, developing new features, and their donations of hardware and funds to the project. We appreciate your continued support!

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Upgrading to OpenELEC 2.99.3

There have been many months of developer testing in the run-up to this beta release, but like any major update there are a lot of changes and something somewhere will have been missed (this is why we do beta tests).

If you are going to update to the beta release from our actual stable OpenELEC-1.0 or OpenELEC-2.0 we STRONGLY advise you to make a backup of XBMC’s data files first and start with a fresh XBMC user dir:

mv /storage/.xbmc /storage/.xbmc-backup

The Slideshow screensaver has been moved to the XBMC add-on repo, users will now need to download the add-on to be able to use it. (If not they will just get a black screen which does nothing)

Improved OpenELEC WikiThanks to our Teammember lrusak and many of our users we have improved our wiki on http://wiki.openelec.tv. If you need a account to help us to contribute to our Wiki please ask one of our Teammembers for a account.

Issue Reports & Feature Requests on githubOpenELEC gained many new users since 2.0 and it became impossible to track issue reports and feature requests via forum postings. To re-assert some control and improve visibility for the dev team we have moved all bug reporting and feature requests to the github issue tracker here: http://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues.

OpenELEC 3.0 highlights and changes:

XBMC-12.0 (Frodo)

Thanks to an incredibly successful GSoC experience and numerous dedicated developers who have been working on many projects for years, XBMC 12 figures to be one of the most anticipated feature updates in a long time. Features include…

HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine (DTS-HD / True-HD not support on AMD GPUs)

XBMC Frodo has improved sound card detection and "Audio Engine support". This may change the naming of audio devices available on your system and the Audio configuration handling. If audio stops working after the update please adjust audio configuration in XBMC settings to use the updated device names and remove any previously installed/configured /storage/.config/asound.conf

improved PVR SupportBased on XBMC 12.0 included PVR support we support many more DVB hardware, and have 4TheRecord, DVB Viewer, Mediaportal, MythTV, NextPVR, TVHeadend, VDR, Njoy N7 and VU+ support in the OS.

Improved AMD XVBA supportThanks to the efforts of FernetMenta, Fritsch, Newphreak and many users who have been testing and providing feedback our native XVBA support was improved again.Xvba now uses a better heuristics to detect wrongly encoded H264 files. The AMD decoder heavily relies that the correct level is set. With these changes, it is now possible to playback those files without artefacts.Another change was the handling of 2K and 4K video files. In the past, they broke the decoder and forced the user to reboot. We now correctly handle 2K resolution files and don't try to create the hw decoder for larger resolutions that are not supported by the XVBA SDK.

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